PubMed Health provides information for consumers and clinicians on prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions. PubMed Health specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports. Clinical effectiveness research finds answers to the question “What works?” in medical and health care.PubMed Health is a service provided by NCBI at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Guest speaker Hilda Bastian works at NCBI at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda. She is responsible for improving accessibility and usability of NLM resources based on systematic reviews. Hilda was instrumental in the development of PubMed Health and today she serves as the editor and curator of PubMed Health. Hilda was one of the founding members of the Cochrane Collaboration and the first Coordinator of its Consumer Network. She has been summarizing the results of systematic reviews for over 25 years.

In response to technical errors, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region (NN/LM SCR) has discontinued the use of Voice Over IP for audio, all audio is conducted through dial-in using the number provided below.

This webinar will be available for 1 hour of Medical Library Association (MLA) Continuing Education credit.

If you cannot attend the live webinar, we anticipate that it will be recorded and archived for viewing at a later date.

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